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A Beer Tourist’s Guide To…Unusual Winter Getaways

Experiencing a new city in Europe during December is always a quaint idea, given they tend to take on a unique character that in no way aligns with their usual feel. While most people gravitate towards famed Christmas markets in your Berlins and your Budapests, beer nerds can rejoice since many winter-wonderful yet under-visited European cities are beer odysseys, in […]

The Craft Beer Chronicles: New England

It’s a richly immersive little bit of the USA, is New England. Maybe because it’s closer to old, O.G. England? It has culture, it has “history” (by North American colonial standards) and it has the softest of water which means they make the softest of beers. It also has a very, very long coastline full of edible sea creatures, all […]

A Beer Tourist’s Guide to…Berlin

“Craft” beer in Berlin is a little ironic (well, isn’t everything?) given that bottles of German Lagerbier from any corner shop are delicious, with plentiful choice and at half the price of something more “indie”. You want Kellerbier, Helles, Dunkel? It’s all there, in those slightly oversized glass bottles in all shapes and sizes, staring out of the fridges like […]

The Craft Beer Chronicles: Origin of Species, Hops Edition

It’s hop harvest season and anyone within a ten mile radius of a hop farm will be able to smell it. For the rest of us, which, let’s face it, is most of us, it’s up to our imaginations, aided by sticking our noses into a freshly poured pale ale. Earlier this summer, however, I found myself in Seattle on […]

The Craft Beer Chronicles: The Northernmost Foeder in the World?

“You wouldn’t believe the number of tourists who stick to the bars in sight of their cruise ship. We get barely a trickle up the hill, so we started this shuttle”. Matt, of Alaskan Brewing, stroked his predictably long beard. “I love bringing people up on it, though. Means I can play tour guide a bit too. Did you know […]

London’s Best Brewery Beer Gardens

While almost every brewery in London does have outdoor space, these are breweries with a slightly more curated “beer garden” feel as opposed to being in a car park, regardless of how amazing the beer might be (Pressure Drop, we’re looking at you).

Good Beers Gone Bad?

“Drink Fresh”, they plead. These delicate, hazy “New England” IPAs – we want them at their best, and the people who brew them say we need to drink ’em now or forever hold our peace. But how much difference does time really make? Is this a marketing ploy to get you to drink fast and buy young?

A Beer Tourist’s Guide To…Portland, Maine

Yep, turns out there’s two of ’em. Indeed, the two Portlands perfectly typify the raging debate that has decimated US craft beer nerd-istry for the best part of a decade: Which IPA is better, East Coast or West Coast?

Analysis: What’s the deal with Brewdog?

They’ve moved ahead of Carlsberg in the “most hated by the craft beer industry & well-meaning beer nerds” standings and have their own section on the BBC News website.
So, what’s the deal?